1911 .22 conversion

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Due to rising ammo costs, increased time at the range, and wanting to keep my practice gun as close as possible to my carry gun, I'm considering a .22 kit for my Taurus PT1911. I'd appreciate any recommendations/advise anyone has. TIA!
 
Don't own a Taurus, but I had a Ciener .22 conversion kit on my Springfield Loaded, and it worked perfectly. Accurate, no FTE/FTFs, easy to install. You might contact them and see if theirs fits your gun.
 
Check out Advantage Arms. Their new unit will lock back just like a regular 1911. Not as accurate as the Marvel, but I'm hearing good things about it.
 
I have a Kimber Kit. Works well but needed different thumb safeties for my older Kimber and my Colt. I called Kimber and told them the kit functioned fine, but that the thumb safeties wouldn't work. They sent me two new safeties (no charge), one stainless and one blue to install on my guns.
 
I'd say the AdArms Target model (fixed barrel, like a Smith 41) IS as accurate as a Marvel...mine is for sure. The plinker unit is a few bucks less but not as accurate. The lockback is nice, the slide has a built in buffer and you can buy an additional shroud for $60 to use a red dot on.
/Bryan
 
I wanted an AA kit but never oculd find one.

I have a ciener with fixed sights. I had to file about .040" off of the rear sight to bring POI down, but it ran well untill I opened a certain box of GBs which is from a different lot than what I've been shooting. Lots of duds.

It ran well on about 4 or 5 other boxes of GBs, Federal bulk pack, and mini-mags cycle the best.

Never shot paper targets with it so I dont know how accurate it is, but I do know its accurate enough to bounce tin cans all over the back yard.
 
I don't know if they changed it later, but my PT1911 has a complete rail over the opening for the slide stop (colts have a gap in the rail). This material interferes with the last-shot hold-open feature on the Advantage Arms kit (also the only kit that has that feature). It takes a bit of tinkering to get it to work (removing material from the top of their slide stop, as the normal slide stops don't work well in practice). I'll try to post photos later.
 
I have a Marvel on a dedicated Caspian lower. Don't know anything about the Taurus P1911...but my combo works/shoots as well as ANY .22 autoloader I've ever owned.
 
22 Conversion

I have the Wilson Combat .22 Conversion Kit and I think it is as good as a purpose built .22 pistol. No issues with standard velocity or high velocity loads.
 
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